Condolences to Norman's family & friends.
Joe
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- Fri Sep 07, 2012 10:30 am
- Forum: Threetowners' Lounge
- Topic: Mac - Norman McLaren
- Replies: 20
- Views: 5048
- Fri Jul 13, 2012 2:52 pm
- Forum: Threetowners' Lounge
- Topic: Stevenston - The bakery at the cross
- Replies: 25
- Views: 13382
Re: Stevenston - The bakery at the cross
No viv Morrison's supermarket chain is a Yorkshire based company think Bradford orginally! which we still had scottish based chains such as Wm Low's & R &J Templeton's.
- Sun May 13, 2012 5:03 pm
- Forum: Threetowners' Lounge
- Topic: Shopping Centre Saltcoats
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2325
Re: Shopping Centre Saltcoats
Yes there was a shopping centre (well more of a shopping arcade really) it was at the top of Hamilton street lasted about 3years or so, from memory it housed about 20 small units never fully occupied tho. it has been the Basebowl tenpin bowling alley since and still is at present.
- Fri Jan 13, 2012 3:39 pm
- Forum: Threetowners' Lounge
- Topic: Wooden pillars at the prom between Stevenston and Saltcoats.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2078
Re: Wooden pillars at the prom between Stevenston and Saltco
hi not a 100% sure i remember watchin a t.v programme about pillars on a beach elsewhere and think its something to do with "shifting sands" and coastal protection! maybe totally wrong tho! Interesting post tho remember well playing and climbing on the pillars as a child in the 70's
Joe
Joe
- Sat Jan 07, 2012 5:38 pm
- Forum: Threetowners' Lounge
- Topic: Decline
- Replies: 23
- Views: 7762
Re: Decline
hi jamie north ayrshire council and its predecessor C.D.C have been the biggest contributing factor in the decline of saltcoats and the threetowns in general. saltcoats rapidly declined in the mid eighties after the then C.D.C refused to lease the braes area to the showmen who had came for decades. ...
- Sun Nov 20, 2011 5:21 am
- Forum: Threetowners' Lounge
- Topic: Saltcoats Railway Station - building renovations
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1862
Re: Saltcoats Railway Station - building renovations
Downstairs is the boulevard cafe and upstairs office's which have been rented not sure of nature of the buisness.
- Sat Nov 19, 2011 11:54 am
- Forum: Threetowners' Lounge
- Topic: Just Joined? Please Introduce Yourself
- Replies: 1036
- Views: 1260609
Re: Just Joined? Please Introduce Yourself
hi all my name is joe live in ardrossan from saltcoats orginally love the threetowns area saltcoats in particular. iam constantly visiting this fantastic site. topics and photograph bring back so many memories! i would loved to have known what it was like to have grown up in the threetowns in the 50...